I do believe that in order to be spiritually healthy, you have to find the divine; I just don't think it's what people keep trying to force me to accept/believe/think/do.
To find the divine, you have to read both inward and outward. The divine can be in your own inclination to mercy, self-improvement, kindness, etc.; it can be in your relationship with an animal or someone who loves you or in looking at a leaf or a flower or an insect or a river outside in nature. The divine exists in thought, sensation, connectedness, peace, and insight.
To build your relationship with the divine, you need to focus on the things that make you feel good and happy and healthy. You need to move away from negativity and bad patterns and unwholesome energy and focus on good ones. Do I know how to do this? No, I don't; it shows in my unhappiness in a variety of aspects of my life. But I tell you this: there are plenty of fat, skinny, WHATEVER, miserable, hate-filled people who know jack shit about the divine even though they sit in a church every time it's open and think they have all the answers.
They do not.
I'm going to try to learn how to build my own new, improved relationship to the divine in all things without going down their dead-end path of false self-righteousness.
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